For the most part, the possible solutions GAO heard about are not startling revelations.
These findings are not startling, but they are revealing because they link the application of what we do well to how we feel.
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It's not just the startling clarity of her singing, but also the lovely and occasionally wry songwriting that's bound to capture listeners' attention and imaginations.
But, perhaps the most startling thing is not that a top class manager had succumbed to the stress of coaching at the top level but that so few of them actually do.
Mayo and his colleagues stumbled upon the then startling truth that it was not their dimming or brightening of lights in the workplace that increased productivity. (They both did.) Rather, it was the mere fact that the workers felt they were, however briefly, the focus of serious attention that made them produce more.
And yet the clarity was startling: I was travelling alone but not a single thing was missing.
In articles and books over the past five years, Dr. Gigerenzer has developed the startling claim that intuition makes our decisions not just quicker but better.
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But center stage is occupied, more often than not, by Cedric the Entertainer in the crucial and startling role of Eddie, an elderly barber who, in semi-retirement, may lack customers but never opinions.
Jim Murphy MP, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said the development amounted to a "startling admission from government that the defence review was not fit for purpose".
To make this more startling, there are many in western societies who are not employed at all.
Among other curiosities, this leads to the startling idea (which has been proved experimentally) that a vacuum is not empty space.
The role of each business unit becomes blurrier with each new hire and after an internal audit, we found a startling amount of redundant tasks and unfinished projects that were due to each group not knowing what the other was doing.
When looking at the combined income and sales tax, not only does the pattern remain the same, but the sheer magnitude of the numbers are startling.
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One expert at this is London-based Universal Everything, whose startling projects for Hyundai, Nokia, Audi, and others have been smashing successes not only at the events and corporate halls where they have been installed, but also on Vimeo.
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